Become a global organization, recognized by our customers for its professional leadership in understanding and sharing with passion the future technology megatrends and their impacts on our lives, both business and personal.

Our Role: why we exist

More than just being futurists, our role is to educate and bring the future of technology at a level accessible to a very wide audience in order for organisations, governments, teachers, students and parents to be better prepared for their own future and the wide range of opportunities in coming decades.

Our Charter

We believe that the future is fundamentally fascinating.

We are committed to share our passion for the future of technology and its implication both in business applications as well as in our personal life.

We have a contagious passion for the new generations and how they are influencing constant changes; at the same time, we believe in a need of mentoring for these new generations entering the world.

We believe that the human brain is more than just a calculating and storing device, the mind plays an important role and can’t be simply replaced by a man made machine.

We strongly believe in collaboration and collective intelligence, the essence of a great future for the human kind and our planet.

We value innovation, leadership, education, family and healthy lifestyle which include regular physical and mental activities, work-life balance as well as a commitment from everyone for a better world.

The Next 50 years

We believe that in the next 50 years we will experience unprecedented changes that will come at a very rapid pace. These will come from all angles and will have a key influence on life expectancy and life span, environment changes, energy, work, transportation, food, water and many other aspects of our life. We will witness key breakthrough in health sciences and areas such as biotechnology, genetic, bionic, robotic, nanotechnology and brain & mind research. One layer of research foundations for all these technologies development will come from the exponential revolution in computer sciences.

Our History

5Deka is an organization founded in Montreal, Canada on December 2008 by Rejean Bourgault, eng. and Olivier Adam, MBA.

Amongst our first customers were: National Canadian telecom provider, large government entity in Quebec, multinational IT services corporation.

Réjean Bourgault

Rejean Bourgault is Co-Founder of 5Deka, a consulting cabinet on the future, with its main activities centered around research, consulting services and public speeches on the future.

Rejean has been working in the High Technology sector for the past 28 years with experience in Engineering, Business Development, Sales and Executive Leadership role in 3 main areas: Network Infrastructure, Wireless and Enterprise Networks. During his career, Rejean has held several positions including International assignments where he had different living experiences in Asia and Europe.

Strong leadership, passion, energy, vision and a recognized ability to execute are characteristics that have marked Rejean’s successful 21-year career at Nortel Networks, where he was Vice-President of sales until December 2009. Réjean is currently managing director and president of sales for Avaya Canada.

An active spokesperson on behalf of Avaya and the telecommunications industry, Rejean is passionate about the future of technologies and its impact on our lives.

He is a strong and dynamic speaker, delivering his speeches and allocutions in front of wide audiences with passion and energy. He is also recognized as a strong motivator and excellent story teller. Rejean has the ability to reach a wide range of audiences, from Executives, Business People, Parents and the Y & Cyber Generation.

Rejean is a graduate of Sherbrooke University, with a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, he is married and has three children.

Olivier Adam is Co-Founder of 5Deka, a consulting cabinet on the future, with its main activities centered around research, consulting services and public speeches on the future.

Olivier has strong experience in the high tech industry, with assignments in the telecommunication and Internet sectors amongst others. He has worked for over four years as a major account executive at Nortel Networks, focusing on enterprise customers in the education, hospitality and pharmaceutical sector.

Olivier's abilities in strategic sales and marketing leadership, combined with his strong Analytical skills allow him to lead his team in delivering superior results year over year.

Olivier has helped drive growth and scale start-ups since 2009, including Skrill (part of PaySafe Group), Hootsuite and Merchantry (now part of Tradeshift). He has also been advising dozens of start-ups in fundraising, growth and day to day operations.

Olivier has a bachelor in management from HEC Montréal and obtained in 2009 an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore. As well, Olivier is part of the expert panel of the TechCast Group.